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Where mathematics comes from : how the embodied mind brings mathematics into being

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Publication details: Basic Books 2000 New YorkDescription: xvii, 493pISBN:
  • 9780465037711
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 510 L149w
Summary: This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world. Where Mathematics Comes From argues that conceptual metaphor plays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious-from arithmetic and algebra to sets and logic to infinity in all of its forms.
List(s) this item appears in: New arrival May 23 to 29, 2022
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This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world. Where Mathematics Comes From argues that conceptual metaphor plays a central role in mathematical ideas within the cognitive unconscious-from arithmetic and algebra to sets and logic to infinity in all of its forms.

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